Ever put a penny on a railroad track?

Baley

relayer

It was a big thing in Jr. High on the tracks at Nordoff and Lindsey in the Valley

granddad

I have not, but I find them all the time with my metal detector.

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Louis

DorkGirl

Yeah!!! And telling each other stories about coins making the train come off of the tracks. I can remember hiding in the weeds waiting for the train, excited about what we would find. Man, talk about a visit to the past.

ScarsdaleCoin

many happy moments remember putting row of them out...of course old wives tale that we would derail the train...then you had to try to find them.....always hard to find em....but yup a blast from the past like thirty years ago...thanks...

lordmarcovan

Sure. It was quite the thing to do when I was younger.

Nickels, too.

And I had a big dollar-sized bronze medallion one time, from some anniversary of Sears Roebuck & Company. Smushed it, too. The whole train made a slight thump-thump-shudder when it passed over that big, thick sucker.

Sometimes the coins would become projectiles when they shot out from under the wheels, though- we couldn't stand too close!

Coinerww

Yes I have.

Bobk

We ( my buds, ok a gang) would put them on a trolly track. Anyone remember them?

dpoole

My nephews wanted to put down a quarter. Had to battle them to keep them to pennies.

Talk about inflation!

Fairlaneman

A friend and myself were Bass fishing last year and a half dozen quarters were put on the train track. Only found one of them. The trains really smoke through the area we were in. UPRR trains flatten the coin much more than the one shown.

You guessed it, fishing was terrible so we had to do something.

Baley

Nickels, too.

Hedger

I remember putting a dime on the Pensy track in Linden N.J. when I was about eight. I saw the intimidating GG1 miles down track (I could tell a GG1 by the number of lights in the front at the time). I quickly ran to the track (with caution of course) and set the dime on the rail shaking and a bit nervous but I did it. Minutes later the behemouth raced by with a thunderous roar around 100MPH. I carefully looked for other trains and crossed the tracks to find the smashed dime. Looked and looked couldn't find it. Keeping in mind this is a dangerous corridor to be roaming in I searched faster keeping my eyes open for trains. Finally, I found what was left of the dime embedded in the track unretrievable. I never put another coin on the tracks after that.

SPEEDracer

my dad and I would lay coins down on the track all the time. I'd get in trouble if I did it alone though.

richbeat

I did it once with a Lincoln memorial cent in Virginia where I grew up. It was run over by a Norfolk and Western freight train. I still have it. My youngest son did it recently with a nickel here in Texas where I am now. That one was run over by a Union Pacific freight train. I've got that one too. You can barely make out the wavy design of the reverse of the cent. The nickel has absolutely no design left.

DominusDeus

I keep meaning to every time I go up to a friends house. I haven't done this in.. gee, around 15 years ago.

Goober

Oh yes, and then walk the tracks down to the trussel, climb up and jump in the river, feel that undertow and push up and swim like heck.

joeyuk

Sure, and place one coin on top of another to get some image transfered as well. I've done this with my children as well.

FatMan

Did it all the time as a Kid. Had a friend whose house backed up to the Jersey Central tracks in Fanwood and we used hang out there all the time. Had all kinds of stacked combos. We created our own clads back in the mid sixties.

Goober

<< <i>Did it all the time as a Kid. Had a friend whose house backed up to the Jersey Central tracks in Fanwood and we used hang out there all the time. Had all kinds of stacked combos. We created our own clads back in the mid sixties. >>



Did you ever see the Jersey Devil?

mgoodm3

<< <i>Sure, and place one coin on top of another to get some image transfered as well. I've done this with my children as well. >>




You put your children on the tracks and the image of one transferred to the other. Wow! Never thought of doing that.

Baley

Quarters are harder to find, here's one with kind of a "double roll" that left a quarter of the design

Shamika

Great memories. I used to do it all the time as a kid.

ElectricEye

I would do it, but Penny Marshall's home address is unlisted

GAT

Being a, "City Slicker" I didn't have train tracks around but put many a wheatie on the old 5 streetcar line in Los Angeles. That was eons ago as I believe the last streetcar left LA around 1958

BillF

I used to do it all the time, using all kinds of coins. Finally got fed up with losing them though, so I started using duct tape to try and hold em on the track longer. It worked better than no tape, but I still lost quite a few.

dorkkarl

oh yes, definitely, & i've made sure my kids have partaken of this childhood rite of passage.

K S

ms70

Yup, I've done it too. My cent looks exactly like yours with faint reverse detail & no obverse. I wonder what it sounds like in the train when
they run it over? The engineers must know right away what they hit.

Baley